Guy Steele actually mentioned this in some talk or other. The money quote (loosely from memory) was "APL makes you a better Common Lisp programmer. I was doing a matrix-tensor multiplication routine, and I was thinking about the nested loops, and then I realized it was mapcar of mapcar of apply, done." Sadly, I can't find the video.
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Guy Steele actually mentioned this in some talk or other. The money quote (loosely from memory) was "APL makes you a better Common Lisp programmer. I was doing a matrix-tensor multiplication routine, and I was thinking about the nested loops, and then I realized it was mapcar of mapcar of apply, done." Sadly, I can't find the video.